NHSE Software Catalog

Polycut

url

ftp://ftp.geom.umn.edu/pub/software/polycut.tar.Z

abstract

Polycut is a program for visualizing covering spaces of 3D Euclidean space
from the inside. Branch curves are various loops and knots. The
aim is to illustrate the author's contention that soap films are best
viewed as minimal area cuts in covering spaces.

description

http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/software/viz/software.html

keywords

data visualization; computational geometry

environment

SGI IRIS